Firefox won't load most pages on Zorin 18

I'm typing this from my phone because Firefox won't even load this forum on my laptop. Some websites like spotify still work for some reason, but most don't. I had to install chrome to use youtube and then I noticed that other websites don't work either and now I have to use them in chrome, too. the thing is, I really want to keep using firefox because firefox and the duckduckgo search engine have both been very helpful in avoiding all the ai features every other browser these days has been trying to push down my throat. so, how do I get firefox working again? it has only been like this after I updated it

I also think I need to specify that I sadly live in russia rn and most of the internet doesn't work here without a vpn anyways. the vpn I've been using for months has been malfunctioning on my laptop with zorin os for the last couple of days, some of its servers work fine but most don't and I have to reconnect or change servers every hour or so, but on every other device it's been working okay. all and all, I really don't think that the vpn or the general internet blocking that has been happening all around the country is at fault here. the problem is in either zorin or firefox.

Have you tryed uninstalling fire fox and reinstalling it? just asking you may have tryed this already. also are you using X11 or Wayland as your windowing system?

Is Firefox installed as Flatpak or .deb Version?

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What VPN are you using? See if you can install RiseUp!
I would also look at installing Zen which is a fork of Firefox. I choose the tarball installation and you can see how to do that in this video.
I also prefer Mojeek over DuckDuckGo as the latter censors your searches whereas Mojeek does not.